How to get Dante in Warframe

There are multiple ways to get Dante in Warframe - including a pity system if you don't want to rely on your luck with the drop tables. The titular frame in the Dante Unbound update, Dante the Orokin scribe comes with an Exalted Tome weapon and a highly resourceful set of abilities.

Like any other non-prime frame, Dante can be purchased via Platinum from the Warframe Market. However, unless you have a ridiculous excess of this premium currency, don't spend it on buying off Dante.

This article will go over the two regular ways to get Dante in Warframe: the old-fashioned farming method in the new Disruption node, and the pity system if you get unlucky.

All the ways to get Dante in Warframe

Dante components can be purchased from Loid or farmed from Armatus (Image via Digital Extremes)

Contrary to expectations, the headliner quest coming with the Dante Unbound will not give you the main blueprint to craft the Warframe Dante. Sticking with the theme of scribes and libraries, this quest will have ties to the Leverian, a relatively lesser-known in-game museum of various important artefacts.

Dante's main blueprint and component blueprints can instead be farmed in Armatus (Deimos), the brand-new Disruption node coming with the update.

To unlock the Armatus node, you additionally need to have the following quests completed:

Dreadlock Protocol
Whispers in the Walls

You will need the following components to build Dante:

Dante Chassis Blueprint
Dante Neuroptics Blueprint
Dante Systems Blueprint

The build-up to this farm is similar to that of Gauss (non-Prime): components can drop as a rotation reward from Deimos Disruption, but the shared loot pool makes it likely to get duplicates.

Dante Pity System: What are Vessel Capillaries in Warframe?

Vessel Capillaries drop from Demolisher units in Aramatus (Image via Digital Extremes)

If you get unlucky with the rolls, there is also a pity system to outright buy the parts from Loid by talking to him and selecting 'Research Dante'.

Similar to the pity system related to Warframes like Citrine and Voruna, Dante component blueprints can be bought with a new exclusive currency called Vessel Capillaries. Vessel Capillaries drop as a resource in Armatus (Deimos) from the Demolisher targets, which are rogue Bonewidows and Voidrigs.

Every Demolisher unit in the Entrati Labs can drop 2-3 Vessel Capillaries (5-6 in Steel Path mode).

You need 540 of these to purchase all of Dante's component blueprints and main blueprint from Loid.

Dante Blueprint - 270 Vessel Capillaries
Dante Neuroptics - 90 Vessel Capillaries
Dante Chassis - 90 Vessel Capillaries
Dante Systems - 90 Vessel Capillaries

Furthermore, blueprints and components for Ruvox and Onos can also be bought from Loid's 'Research Dante' Inventory.

Dante Warframe abilities and playstyle explained

Similar to Wisp (co-incidentally another flying Warframe), Dante brings both defensive and offensive abilities to the table.

Dante's playstyle is similar to Lavos, in that spells can be combined for various outcomes. Dante has a unique UI element above the Energy Bar, showing the two pages of his exalted book.

The pages are filled when you cast either Light Verse (second ability) or Dark Verse (third ability), and you can also cast the same Verse twice to fill the book. Unique permutations and combinations of these two abilities are unleashed in specific effects when you cast Final Verse, the fourth ability.

Noctua (First Ability)

Equip Dante's exalted Tome, Noctua. Noctua deals pure Slash damage with high base critical chance, already making it a powerful tool for killing. On top of this, Noctua can uniquely have all Tome mods equipped at the same time.

Light Verse (Second Ability)

Dante’s vitalizing composition grants him and his allies Overguard and increases their Max Health.

Dark Verse (Third Ability)

Dante’s composition draws blood from nearby enemies, inflicting Slash Damage upon them.

Final Verse (Fourth Ability)

The effect of Final Verse depends on the which order you cast Light Verse and Dark Verse before it:

Verse Combination	Final Verse sub-ability Name	Description
Light + Dark	Pageflight	Summons three Paragrimm Spectres that fly around you and draw enemy aggro.
Dark + Light	Wordwarden	Summons a floating copy of Noctua that follows you around and automatically shoots any target you attack.
Light + Light	Triumph	Grants health regeneration to allies.
Dark + Dark	Tragedy	Wide-area nuke.